A Very Remarkable Tree!

[rogleale]

This tree just hangs in there, what soil there is is forest floor mould, and the roots are into the rock cracks. After every strong wind event I expect to find it on the beach, but it hangs in!



Roger

[Pops]

Looks lacking in foilage but obviously a tough little blighter.

[Ian]

It gives the optical illusion of the image having been rotated 90 degrees! Fantastic example of nature throws up.

Ian

[Pol]

Interesting - but don't stand underneath it on a stormy day!

You've reminded me of a tree we spotted growing out from a wall of a derelict building, It was a stone building, old workhouse or hospital I think and the tree had taken root in a crack between the stones about half way up, maybe first or second floor.

I took a few shots at the time but they weren't any good as I didn't have a longer lens with me. Even more annoying is that we forgot the precise location! It was on a side road, small lane somewhere between Pett Level and Hastings iirc but we've been back several times and just can't find it again.

We keep looking though.

Pol

[OlyPaul]

Interesting, I've seen and took pics of a few of these in the mountainous regions of Wales where they tend to grow out of dry stone walls and sometime out of the sides of slate mine banks.